Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson cited an awkward encounter with President Donald Trump's son-in-law in a Washington restaurant as an example of diplomacy being conducted behind his back when he was in the administration, according to a transcript of a congressional hearing released Thursday.
Tillerson, who was fired by Trump in March 2017, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee he happened to be dining in the same restaurant while Jared Kushner and Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs Luis Videgaray were having a private meal.
The former top U.S. diplomat and CEO of ExxonMobil said he "could see the color go out" of the Mexican official's face when Tillerson greeted them at their table with a smile.
"And I said: 'I don't want to interrupt what y'all are doing,'" Tillerson recalled for the committee. "I said 'Give me a call next time you're coming to town. And I left it at that."